Protection and Development of Lower Colorado River Basin: 1922-1923 |
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... We simply have a great 700 - foot in - take or headgate set in the bank of the river . At the time we built it the silt was below the low scouring point . After the break into Bee 10 DEVELOPMENT OF LOWER COLORADO RIVER BASIN .
... We simply have a great 700 - foot in - take or headgate set in the bank of the river . At the time we built it the silt was below the low scouring point . After the break into Bee 10 DEVELOPMENT OF LOWER COLORADO RIVER BASIN .
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... built by the United States Government and originally intended , as I am informed , to irriga te lands in California , as well as in Arizona , but which is now used practically entirely for Arizona lands . Mr. LITTLE . That is where the ...
... built by the United States Government and originally intended , as I am informed , to irriga te lands in California , as well as in Arizona , but which is now used practically entirely for Arizona lands . Mr. LITTLE . That is where the ...
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... built these upriver areas must remain dry because all the low flow of the natural stream has now been appropriated and to undertake any considerable upstream development which would substantially diminish the flow of the river to the ...
... built these upriver areas must remain dry because all the low flow of the natural stream has now been appropriated and to undertake any considerable upstream development which would substantially diminish the flow of the river to the ...
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... built the ground up south of the levee 8 to 10 feet in the last 10 years . It is an engineering impos- sibility to raise our dirt levee much higher . In flood season all that country south of our levee , about 20 miles by 20 miles , is ...
... built the ground up south of the levee 8 to 10 feet in the last 10 years . It is an engineering impos- sibility to raise our dirt levee much higher . In flood season all that country south of our levee , about 20 miles by 20 miles , is ...
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... built ? Mr. SWING . At the capacity of 31,000,000 acre - feet - some 600 feet high . This proposition to develop the Colorado River as a unified project , of which Boulder Canyon Dam is only the first unit , offers to the American ...
... built ? Mr. SWING . At the capacity of 31,000,000 acre - feet - some 600 feet high . This proposition to develop the Colorado River as a unified project , of which Boulder Canyon Dam is only the first unit , offers to the American ...
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acre-feet acres all-American canal amount Angeles appropriation Arid Lands Arizona BACON BARBOUR bond Boulder Canyon Dam Boulder Canyon project built Calif cent Colorado River Basin Colorado River Commission Committee on Irrigation Congress construction cost CRISWELL DAVIS Diamond Creek diversion electric engineers farm feet flood control flood waters flow Gila River Girand Glen Canyon HAYDEN hereby HOODENPYL horsepower House of Representatives hydroelectric power Imperial irrigation district Imperial Valley interest Interior Irrigation of Arid Laguna Dam Laramie LEATHERWOOD Lee Ferry levees LITTLE Los Angeles lower Colorado River menace ment Mexican Mexico miles NICKERSON Phil Swing possible Poudre power development present problem Professor DURAND proposed purpose question railroad RAKER Reclamation Service reservoir rock Salton Sea second-feet Secretary HOOVER silt SINNOTT SMITH of Idaho southern California storage stream supply SWING tion tributaries United Utah water rights Wyoming Yuma County Yuma project
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Page 38 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 39 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes, subject to existing rights.
Page 144 - War; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same...
Page 38 - All patents granted, or preemption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page 1 - Canyon adequate to create a storage reservoir of a capacity of not less than twenty million acre-feet of water and a main canal and appurtenant structures located entirely within the United States...
Page 38 - ... and such right shall not exceed the amount of water actually appropriated, and necessarily used for the purpose of irrigation and reclamation...
Page 144 - States is hereby prohibited ; and it shall not be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structures in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other water of the United States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War...
Page 144 - It shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor or refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of the Army prior to beginning the same.
Page 3 - There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and accomplish the purposes of this Act.
Page 148 - This is to certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of a resolution adopted...